Some titles I've recently read or at least have placed on my reading list. -------------------- Philosohpy Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium - Seneca Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (must read) The Republic - Plato -------------------- History Five Chimneys - Olga Lengyel The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (must read) The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank -------------------- Fiction (particularly dystopian) 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 (crime/action) Child 44, The Secret Speech, Agent 6 - Tom Rob Smith -------------------- Economics Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Banerjee, Duflo Why Nations Fail - Robinson -------------------- Economics/Decision making/Psychology Undercover Economist, Freakonomics, Nudge, Thinking Fast and Slow -------------------- Random titles The Selfish Gene, Self-Reliance, The Elements of Style (about writing), Slaughterhouse-Five -------------------- Some links to inspire your reading (though you may want to checkout the websites first to get an idea of the topics they cover) http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books…
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- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Meditations
- The Selfish Gene
- Brave New World
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- The Elements of Style
- 1984
- Letters from a Stoic
- Animal Farm
- Fahrenheit 451
- Freakonomics
- The Republic
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- The Undercover Economist
- Why Nations Fail
- The Gulag Archipelago
- Self-Reliance
- Nudge
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- Agent 6
- Child 44
- The Secret Speech